Creating global notices out of posts in my thread, making it then impossible (apparently?) to move all the off-topic posts to another thread.

"Why would they do that?" you ask, "why wouldn't have have a thread somewhere specifically designed to store global notices, instead of just using some random one?" you might say. I do not have answers for you.

When I asked the moderators to do something about fbmac's constant harassment of me, by changing the title of this thread, they instead locked the entire thread. Which is not only punishing me for being the victim of harassment, but also doesn't solve the actual problem because fbmac's "trust level" lets him edit any of my other threads.

So yeah, the moderators are doing a great job. I'm really happy with the service I've received.

In fact, due to the moderators' strange and inexplicable move of using my random thread as a global notice, they actually have made it impossible (apparently?) to actually moderate this thread. So that was really a well-considered strategic move, there.

And none of this would be so bad if I hadn't predicted this exact scenario and asked for remediation of it something like 3 months ago. Of course, nothing was done then, and now we're here.

I understand that it was a misunderstanding, but that doesn't change anything I put in that post. (For the record, I'd never ask a thread of mine or anybody else's to be locked, as it's kind of against the entire point of posting on a forum.)

Look, if I had known at the time that this was a super magical thread that the mods had already decided (without consulting me, natch) should supply all global notices to the entire forum, maybe I'd have asked to keep it locked. It still boggles my mind that any moderator thought that was a good idea.

Look, whatever, I'm hitting mute, I'm out of here, and now I can enjoy the next two days constantly reverting fbmacs changes to my threads. Whee.

When I asked the moderators to do something about fbmac's constant harassment of me, by changing the title of this thread, they instead locked the entire thread. Which is not only punishing me for being the victim of harassment, but also doesn't solve the actual problem because fbmac's "trust level" lets him edit any of my other threads.

Do you have any suggestions that wouldn't be complete overkill considering that this will no longer be an issue three days from now?

And none of this would be so bad if I hadn't predicted this exact scenario and asked for remediation of it something like 3 months ago. Of course, nothing was done then, and now we're here.

As you have been told – repeatedly, in public – the only ways to resolve your complaint are to eliminate TL3 (sorry, not happening because Lounge) or move off of Discourse, which is scheduled to happen this weekend. I suppose you could have forked Discourse and asked us to install your fork, or you could have just left, but I don't see either of those happening.

You won't see that post anyway because you're a special who insists that everyone conform to your demands. And if you don't get your way, you leave the thread. Of course, like every other special , you refuse to modify your behavior to meet other people's demands unless someone with a bigger bat comes along and makes you.

Private conversations have transpired (beyond the whole "likes" requirement thing) which make it clear that he does not care to be TL3. As such, I do not believe that there is a reason to automatically grant him TL3 status just because of the migration. If he were to ask for TL3, or make it clear his position had changed, it would be addressed by staff at that time.